AHS: Donor coordinators help families help others
HOPE donor coordinators Scott Gordon, left, Marcey Kosman and Trudie Yeung discuss a patient case. Photo by Su-Ling Goh.
Organ donation teams busier than ever since mandatory referrals took effect
Story & photos by Su-Ling Goh
Staff at Edmonton’s Human Organ Procurement and Exchange Program (HOPE) and Calgary’s Southern Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Program have been busier than ever since the province’s Bill 205 took effect in April.
In one instance, organ donor coordinator Marcey Kosman meets with a weary-looking father on the worst day of his life. His daughter, a young adult, is on life support in the University of Alberta Hospital’s intensive care unit, with no hope for recovery. He tells Kosman his daughter would want to donate her organs and tissues, particularly her lungs, to help someone breathe. Kosman assures him there are many patients who would be grateful to receive his daughter’s life-saving gifts — and her team will do all they can to make that happen.
